Who is Jason Flemyng? Jamestown actor playing Sir George Yeardley and star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
YOU'LL recognise him from classics such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch but Jason Flemyng's latest role is in Sky One drama Jamestown.
Jason plays Sir George Yeardley in the series which focuses on an English settlement at the beginning of the creation of America.
How old is Jason Flemyng and where is he from?
Jason, 50, was born on September 26, 1966 in Putney, London.
He decided to become an actor after appearing in a number of stage shows at his school, Christ's Hospital, Sussex.
In the 1980s he was involved in the National Youth Theatre and political group, the Young Socialists.
After being expelled from the Labour party for selling the Militant newspaper, he returned to acting in 1990 and was accepted to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Kate Bosworth starred as an American journalist covering the invasion for the New York Times while Maeve Dermody played resistance fighter Sylvia Manning.
The TV series imagined what the United Kingdom would be like had the allied forces of World War II failed and the Nazi’s controlled London.
The series was based on the Len Deighton novel of the same name – in which Douglas Archer is a British detective who becomes embroiled in a Resistance movement after investigating a homicide.
Who is Jason Flemyng married to?
Jason dated actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister in Game Of Thrones, for nine years before they split in 2003.
She and Flemyng met during the filming of The Jungle Book, and she had a tattoo of his name in Thai on her arm, which has since been covered.
He has been married to Elly Fairman since 2007